Track Down Telemarketers at EveryCall.us

With EveryCall.us, you don't have to answer the phone to find out who's behind that strange number; you can sign up for an account and join a community of others who are just as fed up of those strange dinnertime marketing calls as you are, and call out the businesses behind the numbers so others will know before they answer.

If you're like me, you don't always answer the phone if you don't recognize the caller's number. Sometimes you get multiple calls from the same strange number--and it's usually a telemarketer or other direct marketing company that can claim a business relationship with you, which allows them to call even if you tell them not to.

With EveryCall.us, you don't have to answer the phone to find out who's behind that strange number; you can sign up for an account and join a community of others who are just as fed up of those strange dinnertime marketing calls as you are, and call out the businesses behind the numbers so others will know before they answer.

EveryCall.us is great if you're trying to track down the company behind a pesky 800 number that keeps calling you in the middle of the afternoon or right before dinner, but it can also be useful if you have a creditor calling at all hours and using multiple numbers to get your attention. If this "empower yourself" philosophy that powers EveryCall.us sounds familiar, it should be: One of the folks behind the service is the same mind behind PostACrime.com, another service designed to let individuals share experiences that may affect many.

Just type the number into the search bar at the top of the window, and if the number is in the EveryCall.us database, you'll see some general information about the owner of the number, where the number originates, and the types of calls that come from that number. You can also read comments from other EveryCall.us members who have received calls from the same number.

The site's owners have a blog where they provide helpful tips and tricks to help you keep your personal information--including your telephone numbers--safe and private, and provide a listing of numbers based on their area code and exchange on the left side of the page. If you're curious what numbers to add to personal own "do not answer" list, you can check out the site's Top 100 and the past week's most commented numbers.

The real strength of EveryCall.us is in its comments and community. Each number gets its own page where users can comment on what type of call they received from the number and when they received it. They can also recount their experience with the caller and share ways they managed to get the caller off the phone or get themselves removed from the calling list. You can even plot the commenters on a Google Map, so you can see if a specific number is regional or national. If you create a free account at EveryCall.us, you can track responses to your comments and get e-mail notifications when the number you've reported is updated.

EveryCall.us partners with ReverseMobile.com to obtain full listing information for phone numbers searched and posted on the site. Even if there's no record for the number that's been interrupting your meals, EveryCall.us points out that more information may be available at ReverseMobile. ReverseMobile is a phone lookup service that scours multiple directories for information on the owners of various phone numbers. The service uses that information to build a database that allows you to search for a number and find out who the owner is.

Unfortunately, ReverseMobile is just partially useful. This service offers only limited information about the caller on its site for free, (the number, the area the number originates, and the carrier the line owner operates on) but offers a "full report" that may contain the line owner's name, address history, and background report: for about $15. If you pay $40, you can get the report, plus a year's worth of phone number lookups on their service.

Even though its partnership with ReverseMobile feels more like an revenue-sharing agreement than a feature for its users, EveryCall.us does have a leg up on similar service CallerComplaints.com. EveryCall.us gives users the ability to create accounts and track the numbers that annoy them until someone finds out who owns it and how to take action against the owner. Additionally, the robust consumer community at EveryCall.us means that you won't be alone when complaining about the telemarketer or political campaign that won't stop robo-calling you in the middle of the dinner hour.

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